The Ohio State University club crew team has appealed its suspension for hazing and other student-code violations.

The team filed the appeal late Tuesday before the deadline, said Dave Isaacs, a spokesman for OSU’s Office of Student Life.

Vice President for Student Life Javaune Adams-Gaston will issue a ruling sometime soon, Isaacs said. Her options include adjusting the penalty.

Because the team already accepted responsibility, the group could only appeal on the grounds that the sanction is grossly disproportional to the violations, Isaacs said.

The coed team of about 60 rowers has been under interim suspension since Ohio State officials learned of the allegations on March 28, he said.

Isaacs would not go into details about the violations, but he said the questionable activities took place the week of March 11 during spring break, when the team attended spring training at Lake Lure, N.C.

The university defines hazing in its student code of conduct as “doing, requiring or encouraging any act, whether or not the act is voluntarily agreed upon, in conjunction with initiation or continued membership or participation in any group, that causes or creates a substantial risk or causing mental or physical harm or humiliation.”

In a blog item posted this week, a member of the team wrote that she was “heartbroken, despondent, and trying to muster the motivation to continue on at this university.”

She said team members partook in several “traditions and harmless pranks,” including requiring the novice women to wear giant Hanes underwear — decorated by the varsity women — over their workout clothes each day. The garments were adorned with “teasing words such as ‘Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver,’ ” she wrote in the blog. The younger men received similar shirts from the varsity men.

If the suspension holds, the crew team will be the third student group suspended for hazing this year. Delta Sigma Theta sorority has been suspended through August 2016, and Zeta Phi Beta sorority until January 2015.